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If Hillary runs she becomes the william jennings bryan of our time. He lost three times 1896, 1900, 1908.Hillary has it in her to lose a third time.The bitterness from other candidates would be intense-the Clinton-Epstein stories would be overwhelming. Hillary please make our day
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I can see her running, accepting the Obamas as fundraisers and the four of them bilking every liberal of every cent before she loses and they all disappear to Martha's vinyard.
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She may have decided her health issues couldn't be hidden for the Primary winter slog and just wants to parachute in at the convention as "The Savior™"
Nice try. Every time voters see/listen to her she drops. It ain't getting better, Mrs. "I partied with Epstein" Clinton
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Not a fan of either critter but found the first few minutes of her recent Stern appearance pretty funny when I stumbled across it today. Nothing about her ergonomics jumped (or slid or tumbled or lurched) out at me. Does he slobber over everybody that way these days? Creepy.
[RedState] TIME decided to go with the underage environmental activist Greta Thunberg. According to the TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal, the choice was easy to make since we’re all going to die soon and Thunberg was the one who rallied people around the globe to take the concern for environmental disaster to a new level.
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Naturally, big money being poured into making her a Joan of Arc type figurehead/mascot for the more violent and aggressive Antifa 2:Extinction Revolution.
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Yet another chapter in the decline / fall / utter cliwnifucation of the US media.
Since it's inception TIME's Man Person of the Year was selected according to a clear, simple, universally-understood criterion: the individual who for better or worse dominated the news cycle and thus, in media-world and with the perspective of the last twelve months, most significantly influenced the world.
By this simple criterion TIME chose and defended its choice of world-historical personages such as Adolf Hitler and the Ayatollah Khomeini.
The blindingly obvious choice - if TIME had any integrity left - for 2019 would be Donald J. Trump.
A Eurocentric choice could arguably be Boris Johnson or even Erdogan.
But not the spoiled brat who not only has had no influence on anything whatsoever but has not even influenced more than a couple of media cycles out of hundreds.
#6
TIME is worth about US$1– now, right? Clearly this is a bid for attention in the hope that those not disgusted will fork over the price of a subscription in solidarity.
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But then, who reads Time™ magazine in the Internet Age?
Doctor offices too lazy to cancel the subscription? Soy Boi collector's item?
Anymore it is subliminal messaging via cover to those at checkout lanes or going trough airports, but even that is changing. Only thing left is to auto load ads like pop-ups on peoples' PEDs as they walk within blue tooth range, but I don't think they are desperate or/and stupid enough to do that. Yet.
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And no irony lost on the immense amount of resources necessary to manufacture and distribute these magazines to have 99% of them thrown away to make room for the next print.
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European Conservative, are you familiar with Ig-Nobel Prize? Here are some more real scientific experiments to amuse your fellows with over there in Germany. Link
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* Don't drink out of cans. Problem solved.
* Have a glass or salad bowl ready to pour the suds into. Eventually such a container will a have an additional beers worth of flat beer. Problem solved.
* Let it spray as if the thing was champagne and enjoy the party. Problem solved.
I'm not sure why they would even bother with such as study when there are more important things to figure out such as drinking from the boot.
#5
When Augustine Volcano in Cook Inlet, Alaska was steaming, it emitted 500 tons per day of SO2. When it was erupted it emitted 6500 tons per day of SO2.
Where was the EPA in all this?
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"How DARE you, Vulcan!"
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Reminds me of a story I've heard once from a veteran of Soviet army (he swore it's true). The guy served on a base where they trained Egyptian & Syrian pilots. Every time the base commander would get drunk (2 - 3 times a week --- it's Russia) he'd write a request for transfer - to a base where they train dogs "because the dogs are more intelligent AND loyal!". My guy, who was the old man's clerk, would disappear these requests.
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Then there is the MMPI (I guess now the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). It has been around a long time and it is hard to fool. I have known those that have taken it for Alaska State Troopers screening. If they tried too hard instead of being honest, the authorities will see the ruse right away. Would be interesting to test the 300 Saudi pilot trainees, assuming that it would be relevant for their cultural backgrounds.
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Ref #5: You'd better put the coffee pot on, unplug the phone, and hang a 'do not disturb' on your door. You'll be at it for a wile.
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Sentries usually (and visibly) are from my previous occasions to enter San Diego Bases. MP's, I had always assumed were, as well. I could be wrong
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IIRC, the gate sentries at most bases (maybe all these days) are armed. However, their primary job is to verify that people have valid access to the base. They don't search cars. The Saudi perpetrator, as a student had access to the base. The people who were killed were on duty in the classroom building, but were not armed. They were not "sentries".
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They were soft targets then. How does this kind of thing happen 18 years later?
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Larry Ellison used to put on a heckuva show for Oracle OpenWorld. I remember one huge party at the Cow Palace that featured performances by Lenny Kravitz and Stevie Nicks. Everything, well everything legal anyway, that you could possibly want in a party was there. The conferences, exhibits and keynotes were all extremely interesting for nerds like me.
I think it was about 2013 when I last attended. After that I refused to go anymore. The conference was still great but anywhere I went outside of Moscone Center I ran into weirdos, deviants, perverts, bums, panhandlers, pee and poop. I imagine it's gotten worse since then but I wouldn't know because I'll never go back to San Francisco.
Oracle Corporation is based in Redwood City which is just south of San Francisco. I think just about all of his life, Ellison has been a denizen of the Bay Area. For them to move OpenWorld to Las Vegas says a lot.
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I can echo that Abu. Last time I attended was in 2009 and they blocked of the streets around Moscone.
Open world attracted the best and brightest. Now all SF attracts are flies.
For 9 years I rode BART into the city from the East Bay. Happy in Idaho now...never going back
[Times of Israel] Investigators believe that the gunmen in a Tuesday shootout at a kosher supermarket in New Jersey deliberately attacked the store, though there was no immediate word on their suspected motive.
"Based on our initial investigation (which is ongoing) we now believe the active shooters targeted the location they attacked," Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said.
Authorities had initially said that they did not believe that the JC Kosher Supermarket had been singled out. Fulop did not elaborate on why authorities now believe the market was targeted.
The gun battle left at least six people dead ‐ three bystanders, one police officer and two suspected shooters.
Authorities have not released information on the bystanders or gunmen who were killed, but Chabad identified two of the dead as store owner Leah Minda Ferencz, 33, and Moshe Deutsch, 24, both members of the local Hasidic community. Any bets the shooters were of an ethnic group and religion that is known to be violently opposed to Jews living?
You win. Update from the Daily Mail at 11:25 a.m. ET:
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Fulop did not elaborate on why authorities now believe the market was targeted.
If they were white supremacist/nazi types it would be blaring at us 24/7 now, so the facts are obvious. If the hypocrite administrations and media will not release data, people are free to assume.
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Well, that's the last we'll bear about that story.
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Owners were bystanders?
According to the Daily Mail update, the shooters drove calmly in their stolen U-Haul truck to the kosher shop after killing the policeman in the cemetery. It looks like the shop was targeted, the intent being a massacre of all within before moving on to the synagogue and school — they had “a large amount of ammunition” with which to do so.
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Charles, that guy was a wacko red injun wannabe, but these guys were there too. They were the one's hollering curses and profanity at the white school children.
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They're probably all scum, low down criminals hiding their real activity in their militant communes, under a veneer of cultism. Taking refuge in your 1st amendment under religious rights and making 'secularism' work for them. And they chose the one religion they think would not be challenged by the white po po. Very obvious really.
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So there WAS a connection. Which means the Video of the incident was probably recorded by the Black Hebrew members. Oh boy, did the Convington lawsuit just become more interesting.
Were either of the two shooters part of the group in Jan? Nuclear implosion of Woke heads would occur.
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Every propaganda arm cut out the black hebrews and their slurs, acknowledged slurs were cast but showed the white kids during the statement, implying it was the white kids slurring the indian.
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And they had to keep doing that, and doing that, and doing that, even after their own lawyers suggested they stop or be liable in a lawsuit, because the let the whole video get out of the bag would destroy a number of narratives.
They have shown, time and again, they are willing to flat out distort and lie to point of losing big in court to protect the agenda.
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Re the Covington Boys and the "Black Hebrew Israelites," the exquisite writer Caitlin Flanagan did a nice write up in The Atlantic. Turns out the Black Hebrews filmed a two hour long video of the whole incident, of which the nutjob fake-war hero Native American provocateur's confrontation was just a very brief minor episode.
The full video reveals that there was indeed a Native American gathering at the Lincoln Memorial, that it took place shortly before the events of the viral video, and that during it the indigenous people had been the subject of a hideous tirade of racist insults and fantasies. But the white students weren’t the people hurling this garbage at them—the young “African American men preaching about the Bible and oppression” were doing it. For they were Black Hebrew Israelites, a tiny sect of people who believe they are the direct descendants of the 12 tribes of Israel, and whose beliefs on a variety of social issues make Mike Pence look like Ram Dass. ...
The full video reveals that these kids had wandered into a Tom Wolfe novel and had no idea how to get out of it.
It seems that the Black Hebrew Israelites had come to the Lincoln Memorial with the express intention of verbally confronting the Native Americans, some of whom had already begun to gather as the video begins, many of them in Native dress. The Black Hebrew Israelites’ leader begins shouting at them: “Before you started worshipping totem poles, you was worshipping the true and living God. Before you became an idol worshipper, you was worshipping the true and living God. This is the reason why this land was taken away from you! Because you worship everything except the most high. You worship every creation except the Creator—and that’s what we are here to tell you to do.”
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The story they'd like us, and their lawyers to believe is that their faith includes a narrative of curiously black Israelites carried over by slavers to America.
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I had the privilege of listening to a group of these guys preaching and ranting on a corner in downtown Memphis a year ago. I kept my white face at a safe distance. They are ostentatiously deluded, and ultra dangerous.
[FreeBeacon] Virginia Democratic leaders abandoned their gun confiscation proposal Monday following a grassroots outpouring of opposition to gun control across the state.
Governor Ralph Northam (D.) and incoming Senate majority leader Dick Saslaw (D.) said they will no longer pursue their marquee plan to ban the possession of "assault weapons." Instead, they will include a provision to allow Virginians to keep the firearms they already own. The reversal comes before the newly elected Democratic majority has even been sworn in, after a majority of the state's counties declared themselves "Second Amendment sanctuaries." How generous. They will allow us to keep our private property....
"In this case, the governor's assault weapons ban will include a grandfather clause for individuals who already own assault weapons, with the requirement they register their weapons before the end of a designated grace period," Northam spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky told the Virginia Mercury. "Fuck You" should be the response to that idea. Registration always will leade to confiscation.
The Democrats' backtracking may indicate a trend in the gun debate in Virginia. Gun-control advocates poured millions of dollars into successfully flipping the state legislature, but the outpouring of opposition to their agenda, even in deep blue areas, may cause some new members of the state legislature to be cautious about backing gun control. The concession is unlikely to end the fight brewing across the state, however, as Democrats still plan to pursue a ban on many new sales.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League, which has pushed counties to refuse to enforce unconstitutional gun laws, said there is "no doubt" the Democrats' retreat was a result of the Second Amendment sanctuary movement.
"They were hoping to play that card later, but they're playing it now because they have to find some way to slow down this whole process," Philip Van Cleave, the group's president, told the Washington Free Beacon.
Gun-rights groups said the backtracking is merely a political strategy designed to enact new gun bans and registration. Yep
"Gov. Northam and the rest of Virginia’s anti-gun politicians’ idea of a compromise is to threaten hundreds of thousands of Virginians with felonies unless they submit to government control," Catherine Mortensen, a National Rifle Association spokesperson, told the Free Beacon. "The NRA will stand with the Commonwealth’s law-abiding gun owners in solidarity to oppose gun bans, confiscations, and registrations."
"We've been down this compromise road and their version of a compromise is they never give up anything," Van Cleave said. "We are expected to give up something every time and we're not doing it anymore. I think gun owners are tired of this and they're gonna stand up and fight this stuff." Glad someone has figured this out about the totalitarian left
The grandfather clause offered by Northam's office had no impact on VCDL's opposition to the bill, Van Cleave said, and the group will fight any new gun ban‐whether it has a confiscation component or not.
"The problem with what his suggestion is it's still taking away guns," Van Cleave said. "Yeah, we get to keep our AR-15s, but what about the next generation and the generation after them? Who are we to negotiate away their rights and accept this crap?"
He did suggest they could work with Democrats on gun legislation if it targeted criminals instead of gun owners. No... just no. The totalitarians will use this as the camel nose under the tent. You all will be criminals.
According to Van Cleave, there were 59 sanctuaries in the state as of Tuesday. VCDL is organizing supporters to attend 20 more meetings this week alone.
Sorry, Bob. This is your 3rd parking ticket. Under the Red Flag law, anyone showing a lack of personal judgement and/or posing a danger to the citizens of the commonwealth or their property shall not be permitted to posses firearms. So hand 'em over!
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Jersey City has tough gun laws I think ? Two crazy black terrorists just killed a 9mm and taser wielding cop and unarmed civs with hi-power ARs there.
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If they used AR-15's, they aren't high powered. Nothing more than suped up .22's. AR-10's and other mid size and up calibers might be worthy of high powered. Much rather be shot by AR-15 than .30-06 or 7.62x51mm.
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Only in footage, same as everything up to and including .50. Getting shot by anything is bad but there is a serious power difference between the small intermediate and the .30 cal stuff. I'm also well aware of which one is more likely to penetrate body armor. And I've seen first hand what .30-06 and other rounds do to game animals
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SilentBrick it depends. From a 20-22" barrel the 5.56 tumbles and breaks up and does a horrible amount of damage. From the shorter M-4 barrels it just makes a small puncture wound as it can't reach the speeds needed for the designed damage.
From the first Gulf War, I have seen wounds where a guy was hit in the upper left arm and the bullet tumbled along the bones and exited out his right shoulder. Another got shot in the gut, the 5.56 went through the intestines, hit the spine, broke in two and did one and a half rotations for each piece through his abdominal cavity. Lost 2/3rds of his small intestine.
I would rather get shot with a 7.62 personally than a 5.56 from a full sized M-16.
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Yes, but most of these mass shooters are using carbine length AR-15's, with probably FMJ. If they are using hunting ammo, the damage it'll do is more, but there's still a large power difference between a 5.56 round and a 7.62 one. And in the event of an incident, I don't plan on using FMJ rounds until I'm out of the other kind. My home defense carbine is loaded with .308 150 gr core lokt soft points. So you'll pardon my skepticism that you'd rather be shot by a 7.62 caliber round in that case, than a 5.56 one. Same goes with my M-1 Garand, only it's 220 gr. (I know the issues with that, but I feel that if I'd had to shoot more than 20 times, I'm serious trouble anyway.) The only AR-15 I have is a DCM competition one, with a 20" heavy barrel. I don't plan on using that for any troubled times as it weights 16.5 pounds
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There is, and if I need the rounds to penetrate walls with books, furniture or the concrete blocks ME homes are made of, 7.62 is my round of choice any day. Or a 50 Cal.... :D
[PJMedia] On Saturday night, UFC star Bryce Mitchell put a finishing move on his opponent that has only been used twice in a UFC "pro-motional" fight. Mitchell was named the victor, and then name-checked Washington, D.C.'s most famous MMA fan, President Donald Trump: "Donald Trump. I'm up here in D.C. If you need help whooping some politician, holler at me bro; I'll do it for free!" Sooooo tempting. A large portion of the demoncrats need a good ass kicking too.
[American Thinker] The first signs of trouble ahead for newly elected so-called moderate representatives in swing districts are being felt here in Virginia's 7th district.
Rep. Abigail Spanberger hopped on the moderate train in 2018 touting her CIA background ad nauseum to the people of the traditionally Republican 7th district. With the help of millions of dollars from pro-abortion PACs and Soros-funded outfits, volunteers from Northern Virginia spread out over the western and southwestern suburbs of Richmond to give her a slim margin of victory over Republican Dave Brat. But Spanberger's cover as an across-the-aisle moderate is not holding up well under the pressure of an impeachment hoax and a newly elected majority Democrat legislature.
Up until this past weekend, Spanberger's numerous townhalls have been generally peaceful Q & A's. That all changed during Sunday's gathering at a middle school gym in Spotsylvania County.
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RTWT - I get the feeling that a sleeping giant has truly awakened. Add this 2A confiscation non-sense and the $hitshow around impeachment and 2020 starts to get real interesting.
Polls are crap. Most conservatives - IMHO - don't do polls preferring to make their preferences known at election time...or in selected town halls it would seem.
Liberals have learned nothing from 2016 and forgotten nothing from 2016. They will reap the whirlwind.
[AnNahar] Protesters on Tuesday blocked the Jounieh highway in both directions for several hours to demand the release of four detained demonstrators.
Other protesters meanwhile rallied outside Jounieh's serail for the same purpose.
The detainees were held during a road-blocking protest in the morning.
The highway was later reopened after the release of the four protesters.
Protests meanwhile witnessed an escalation in the northern city of Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , where several people were maimed in festivities between army troops and stone-throwing protesters at the entrance of Tripoli's el-Mina district.
The confrontation erupted as soldiers sought to reopen a blocked road. Troops fired tear gas during the clash as protesters said rubber bullets were also fired at them.
The demonstrators in el-Mina are demanding the resignation of the municipal chief in protest at the collapse of a house overnight in the area that killed two siblings.
Protesters had attacked the municipality headquarters in el-Mina earlier in the day, smashing windows and setting a room and vehicles on fire.
A large military force was sent to the city to deal with the violence. The cause of the house's collapse wasn't immediately clear, but heavy rain appeared to have contributed. The two killed were a 19-year-old woman and her older brother.
Elsewhere, protesters blocked the al-Quntari intersection in Beirut in solidarity with the Tripoli and Jounieh demonstrators. They were later dispersed by riot police.
Other protesters meanwhile blocked the vital Jiye highway that links Beirut to the South, the Hamat tunnel in Batroun, the Chekka tunnel, the al-Beddawi highway, the Minieh-Abdeh road, the al-Bireh-Qubayat road, the Akkar Plain road and several roads in the Bekaa and Hasbaya.
The Jiye highway and the Chekka tunnel were later reopened.
[IsraelTimes] Satellite images show apparent underground storage passage on an alleged IRGC base in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border.
Photos can be seen at the link, with the customary circles, arrows, and explanatory paragraphs.
In an apparent threat, an Israeli intelligence firm on Tuesday released photographs of what it said is an Iranian tunnel being dug along the Syria-Iraq border to assist in the movement of weapons throughout the Middle East.
According to the private satellite image analysis company ImageSat International, the tunnel is likely being used to store Iranian missiles en route to Tehran’s proxies throughout the region.
[AmericanThinker] The collapse of the figurative and literal wall between East and West Germany was chief among the upheavals in those final weeks of 1989. Not even a year out of office and Reagan was magnificently proven correct in his understanding of basic humanity: people want to be free. Apart from one major exception, the oppressed behind the Iron Curtain that autumn overcame their regimes without bloodshed and violence.
I was in high school during the fall of communism across Eastern Europe. I could not then imagine that precisely thirty years later a caricature of upheaval would be transpiring in my own country.
"Resist!" is screamed by media personalities and celebrities and politicians who in a sane world would never win a race for city lieutenant sanitation commissioner. They betray ignorance of what real dictatorship is, as they dare ascribe the gravitas of 1989's righteous rebellions upon their own crusade.
When I consider Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, and Jerry Nadler maneuvering for impeachment of President Donald Trump, it is with some dark bewilderment. They have no idea what disaster they are courting for themselves and their allies. It will not end well for them.
...let's clarify something: the present effort to impeach Donald Trump is not a revolution. It is a counter-revolution.
Since the summer of 2015 the hardliners of the Deep State have gazed at Trump with derision, then desperation, and now total destruction in mind. To them the American people simply aren't meant for a loosening of control and regaining oversight of their own government. Trump's message resonated with those same American people as had nothing in recent memory. Democracy came to Eastern Europe by ballots and not bullets. So too did American citizenry in flyover country begin to revolt against their elitist masters.
...Trump's domestic and foreign efforts share some kinship with glasnost and perestroika. Mikhail Gorbachev's policies encouraged greater transparency of the Soviet government and loosening of control over the Russian people. But Gorbachev's reforms were too great for Soviet upper crust to accept. Their frustrations with Gorbachev came to a head in August of 1991, when the USSR's own hardliners staged their coup and tried to depose the Russian president.
The coup failed, and Gorbachev was restored to office. His policies against entrenched Soviet politics had succeeded beyond any expectation. So too are many of Trump's own policies, particularly economic, already bearing great fruit. "Make America Great Again" may sound ruffian compared to the beautiful enunciation of perestroika, but it has shaken the power structure of our own establishment all the same.
...The likelihood of success for the coup in our midst is comparatively less. Doubtful the methodology will mirror that of the Soviet hardliners. However, the motive remains the same: hold on to power over the people.
...As noted, there was one significant deviation from the pattern of the pro-democracy movements in the autumn of '89. For a quarter century communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu wielded absolute power over the Romanian people. As one Soviet satellite after another fell, he staged a bloody countercoup against Romania's own invigorated malcontents. It didn't work.
...December 25, 1989 was not a Merry Christmas for the Ceausescus. Found guilty by a drumhead trial of crimes against the Romanian people, Nicolai and Elena were immediately thrown against the wall ‐ literally ‐ and shot dead. Images of their shattered bodies were broadcast around the globe.
So far as analogies go, the comforts and careers of the petty tyrants in Washington may soon be just as crumbled. Our own would-be overlords would do well to be mindful of that. To point to remember, it's the same kind of people who run Soviet Union - they just rely on different totalitarian tools.
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What P2P said. Not sure I'd want to be associated with Gorbachev and the complete collapse of the nation that his movement, unwittingly, set in motion.
Gorbachev tried to make minor tweaks to a monstrous system.
He's much more similar, if you need an American referent, to a hybrid of Obama (cf Obamacare esp.) and W: an incompetent figurehead for a desiccated and corrupt elite, completely out of his depth, a puppet of the Deep State.
The other analogy one could make is between the Yeltsin-era Russian oligarchs and our own wannabe tech oligarchs. The rise of each group to dizzying heights of wealth and political sway was impossible without a complete breakdown of regulatory oversight and enforcement of the nation's laws.
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Procopius2k, Russia did not break up into many states, the Soviet Union broke up.
If enough people in Puerto Rico, or Samoa, or Guam want to leave the Union I don't think they'll get much of a fight from the rest of the US. Maybe a few of the perpetually Canadian-bound liberals can set up shop in one of these new nations.
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Gorbachev is despised throughout the former Soviet Union.
He was a stupid rube, a stooge of the Politburo whose half-baked pseudo-reforms set in motion a decade of utter chaos, misery and impoverishment for the peoples of that nation.
Along the way, he ordered the killing of 14 Lithuanian peaceful protestors.
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I think if Gawd were done with America, and the people had suicidally somehow voted in Bernie Sanders, he'd be the perfect reincarnation of Gorbachev. Hell, he'd have disunited the USA itself.
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Just occurred to me, there's another major difference. The people who run Soviet Union were Russian patriots (or chauvinists if you like). These people hate USA.
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Nora Roberts on CBS News last night barely mentioned the Articles of Impeachment. She was nowhere near as breathless as when she reported on the "bombshell testimony" in the early days of the Schiff hearings and it was not the lead story. Instead, she was preoccupied with the shooting in New Jersey. When you've lost CBS, your a loser.
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As for Russia, you would have to be a crooked moron to let something like the USSR or the pre-1914 Russian Empire slip through your fingers. Putin may be crooked but he is no moron. OTOH, there are Baraq, Hillary, Jeb, Pelosi, Schifferbrains and Nadler; crooked morons all.
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Procopius2k, the map makes a decent case but it was an empire. Empires are comprised of many states brought together, occasionally with the conquerors name applied to the whole.
Claiming India is Britain doesn't make it so just because they were members of the same Empire.
[India Today] Afghan war can end in few weeks if Pakistan denies safe haven to Taliban: US top Senator Graham
The war in Afghanistan would end in a few weeks if Pakistan denied the Taliban safe haven, a top US Senator has said, urging the Trump administration that it should start negotiations with Islamabad rather than the Afghan insurgents to stop the deadly conflict.
The comments by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham came amid reports that the US has resumed talks with the Taliban in Qatar on Saturday, three months after President Donald Trump abruptly halted diplomatic efforts that could end America's longest war. Pakistan is said to be assisting the US in reopening the talks with the Taliban.
"As to negotiating with the Taliban, I think we got this wrong. I think what we should do is start negotiating with Pakistan. If Pakistan denied the Taliban safe haven in Pakistan, the war in Afghanistan would end in a matter of weeks," Graham, the senior Senator from South Carolina said in an interview to Fox Channel on Monday.
In September, President Trump called the year-long negotiation efforts "dead" and withdrew an invitation to the insurgents to join secret talks at his retreat at Camp David after the killing of an American soldier in Kabul.
Graham also said that he wants to change the "behaviour" of Pakistan.
"So, I want to try to get Pakistan to change their behaviour through a free trade agreement tied to security performances, then talk to the Taliban. I want as much leverage over the Taliban as possible to end this war, he said. Good target, wrong ammo. Sigh... at least he's willing to accept the problem is in Pakistain. 'B-' for effort.
President Trump is keen to end the deadly war in Afghanistan that has claimed the lives of hundreds of American soldiers over the past 18 years.
Trump made a surprise visit to the Bagram Airfield, the largest US military base in Afghanistan late last month and met American soldiers. During the visit, Trump said the Taliban "wants to make a deal".
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Stopping support is not much. They'll get it from China. I say bomb their families in Quetta. Kill the households of those because of whom other families are dying, the world is burning at no personal cost to them.
[AmericanThinker] Things are seldom what they seem to be, but we live in an age that is unusual for the dominance that fiction and fantasy have in the public debate about so many key issues. The House of Representatives is about to impeach a successful and popular President on hearsay, innuendo, and outright falsehood; you must believe that men can become women and women men or face vilification and ostracism; and of course if you dare whisper even the smallest hint that Islam is not a religion of peace, even as the jihad body count steadily mounts, your public career will be over and your name ruined. But there is no area of national and international discussion so rife with rigidly enforced propaganda falsehoods than the conflict between Israel and the so-called "Palestinians." In The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, the historian and scholar of Islam Robert Spencer clears away the lies.
And there are so very many lies to clear away. The Palestinian Delusion begins by exploding the common modern-day claim that the Israelis are descendants of Europeans who have ties to the Middle East that are largely mythical at worst and far-distant ancient history at best. Spencer marshals a large body of evidence to show that not only were Jews always living in the land that is today the state of Israel, without interruption even after the Romans expelled them in the year 134, but that the Arab presence there began considerably later and was always sparse. In fact, the presence of Muslim Arabs in the geographical region known as Palestine only began to increase significantly after Zionist leaders began to exhort Jews to return to their ancestral homeland. With the Jews came jobs and opportunity; many, if not most, of the people known today as "Palestinians" only came to that area when it started to be settled by Jews in great numbers. Spencer proves this by reference to the names of the "Palestinians" themselves, which all too often betray an origin somewhere else.
The second great myth that The Palestinian Delusion explodes is that "Palestine" was ever the name of anything more than a geographical region. The claims that Israel is occupying "Palestinian" land are predicated on the assumption that there ever was Palestinian land in the first place. Spencer briskly traces the history of the region, showing that while the Romans renamed it Palestine, there never was a nation of Palestine at all, and the land that is supposed to be occupied by Israel today was actually designated by the League of Nations (and confirmed by the United Nations) to be the site of a Jewish national home. No one rightly owns "the West Bank" (another propagandistic neologism; it’s Judea and Samaria) and Gaza except Israel.
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The Arabs lost the war in 1948 to destroy Israel. Three years before the Germans lost their war. The provinces of Prussia and Silesia were taken by Russia and Poland respectively and ethnically cleansed. No one talks about German 'right of return'. Wars have consequences.
[TheGuardian] Claremont United Methodist church installation shows Jesus, Mary and Joseph as caged immigrant family
If a mod would be so kind as to cross-link to the disgusting Pope comment about Trump being Herod, I would be so obliged. You know, for Methodists they really took this cue from the Pope from the other day. Which begs the question : Are they all the same now ? Incidentally, Trump is often refereed to in fringe churchy circles as a modern day John the Baptist, and it's the Pope who sits in Herod's seat today. Not relevant maybe, just... curious.
A nativity installation depicting Mary, Joseph and Jesus separated in cages has caused a stir in a southern California city, a few hundred kilometers from the US border with Mexico. This link to a 5 Dec Breitbart appears to be a reference.
The installation shows Joseph and Mary, in separate cages, facing a cradled baby Jesus in a cage, with Joseph’s arms outstretched towards him. It was posted to Facebook by the Rev Karen Ristine of the Claremont United Methodist church, and has been shared more than 20,000 times.
"In a time in our country when refugee families seek asylum at our borders and are unwillingly separated from one another, we consider the most well-known refugee family in the world. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the Holy Family," Ristine wrote on Facebook. She cited Matthew 25:35, in which Jesus thanks those who fed him when he was a hungry refugee fleeing Bethlehem. If I remember correctly, nowhere does the good book state that 'I came to you selling drugs, and you readily let me in. Blessed are you...'
"What if this family sought refuge in our country today? Imagine Joseph and Mary separated at the border and Jesus no older than two taken from his mother and placed behind the fences of a Border Patrol detention center as more than 5,500 children have been the past three years," said Ristine in the Facebook post. Disgusting sons of Belial, mixing their shit with the truth to suit their politics. Read the rest of this unhappy thing at the Guardian.
Can there be an 'Assorted Bastitches' option in the Organization dropdown ? Never mind... just asking.
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Aren't they supposed to be calvinists ? Maybe that's why they're like this. The calvinism of yesterday has morphed into SJW idiocy mixed with deference for human deities today. Or maybe it's just a question of moolah for the chapter. Do they have a diocese ? I wouldn't know.
You have helped to ruin California's public schools - now the 2nd worst in the nation because of this illegal invasion which you aid and abet.
You have helped to undermine rule of law and public safety in California.
Your foolish, bogus altruism for people who deserve none has looted the public welfare, and reduced any hope of proper funding of the real needs of California's citizens.
You've helped to turn huge portions of the state into trash- gang- and violence-ridden shitholes, many of which are either literally bankrupt or headed in that direction, with a poverty rate in the 40% range.
And you've done this for the exquisite pleasure it gives you to preen and posture and condemn your fellow citizens.
Our Christmas message to you is F--- off, you vile piece of virtue-signaling shite.
And stop harming this state. Go do your preening in Sinaloa or Tegucigalpa.
Right. And they were the most law abiding people, Jesus even more so. 'Render unto Caesar...'
In fact, some people draw great parallels to 'absolute socialism' with him. The 'give everything you have to the poor' message is Jesus. So high that the most guilt-ridden, silver spoon fed Harvard scholar cannot get over it.
But one can't argue faith or truth with these fuckers. Just in it for the tithes and the liaisons. Cheap bastards.
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#3, actually Methodists aren't Calvinists. They are an offshoot of the Church of England and follow a Wesleyan/Arminian interpretation of the Bible.,
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Everyone is afraid too offend a piece of shit muslim but it seems too be ok too offend a Christian. I'm not religous but did grow up in the south and have respect for someone else's religion until they don't show respect for others. I wish we could shove the whole state of california into the ocean.
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[PJ] "What happened to Drudge?"A lot of people have been asking that question lately. If you talk to conservatives these days, you'll hear that Matt Drudge's eponymous news aggregation site has gone over to the dark side‐that Matt's joined the anti-Trump resistance. And now, Rasmussen Reports, an arguably reputable polling operation, is calling Drudge out on Twitter, even suggesting that the site has been sold.
The whole kerfuffle appears to have begun at the end of November, when the Bongino Report, touted as a Trump-friendly alternative to Drudge, launched. Bongino taunted Drudge with a pair of tweets:
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Oh well. It's the end of an era. Remember the Drudge Report was the outlet that broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal. This absolutely enraged the media, who not only thought that they should have been the ones to break the story, but that they should have had the decision to break or bury the story.
And seeing what they did with the Epstein story, burying it in 2015 to protect Bill because Hillary was going to run in 2016, thank God bloggers were there to do it.
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The internet, not the "Media", are what the Founders were talking about in the free flow of information, aka freedom of the press, for citizens of a republic. Why do you think so many governments are expending great effort to 'control' it. /rhet question
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More and more like clickbait and links to UK media with crap stories about aliens. Clearly more focus on ad revenue Clearly Matt isn’t involved at any editorial level and he was a groundbreaking leader in bypassing the legacy media. Hope he made a bundle and doesn’t look back. Entropy at work now.
[American Thinker] Up until now, President Obama has said he knew nothing about the FBI bid to destroy his political rival, Donald J. Trump, as evidenced in the newly released and mighty critical inspector general report.
Back in August 2016, Obama said:
I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations. I do not talk to FBI directors about pending investigations[.] ... I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI -- not just in this case, but in any case. FULL STOP. PERIOD. Guaranteed. Nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department[.]
Today, Obama's claim is in tatters. Julie Kelly of the Federalist found references within the new I.G. report that Obama was briefed on the gamy investigation and knew all about it all along.
Former FBI Director James Comey briefed President Barack Obama about the investigation into Donald Trump's campaign before the 2016 election, according to a report released today by the Justice Department's inspector general.
When we asked Comey about meetings with the White House concerning Crossfire Hurricane, he said that although he did not brief the White House about the investigation, he did mention to President Obama and others at a meeting in the Situation Room that the FBI was trying to determine whether any U.S. person had worked with the Russians in their efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election. Comey said he thought it was important that the President know the nature of the FBI's efforts without providing any specifics. Comey said although he did not recall exactly what he said, he may have said there were four individuals with 'some association or connection to the Trump campaign.' Comey stated that after he provided this information, no one at the meeting responded or followed up with any questions. Comey did not recall specifically when this meeting took place, but believed it may have been in August 2016.
The White House meeting also included then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and then-CIA Director John Brennan, the inspector general found.
So Obama knew, quite contrary to his claims, that this now criticized rat-king of an investigation on his rival was happening as he watched.
It's not a big surprise, actually. As Kelly notes, FBI officials Peter Strzok's and Lisa Page's emails suggested that that was going on:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ‐ A powerful suicide bombing targeted an under-construction medical facility on Wednesday near Bagram Air Base, the main American base north of the Afghan capital, the U.S. military said.
The attacker struck the facility that is being built to help the Afghan people who live in the area, the U.S. military said. There were no coalition casualties and the base remains secure, the statement said.
Earlier reports suggested a U.S. military convoy might have been the target of the attack. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing but both the Taliban and the Islamic State group stage near-daily attacks in Kabul and elsewhere in Afghanistan.
Dr. Sangin, a physician, said that the hospital near the perimeter of the base was on fire. It wasn’t immediately clear if any foreigners were inside the hospital.
Gen. Mahfooz Walizada, police commander of northern Parwan province, confirmed the attack but offered no details on casualties.
Sangin, who is the head of the provincial hospital, said that they have received five injured, all Afghans.
All five wounded in the attack at the southern entrance to the base were Afghans, said Wahida Shahkar, a spokeswoman for the governor of Parwan province, where the base is located.
"A 30-minute clash also happened between the attackers, who obviously wanted to enter the base, and foreign forces," she told Reuters.
The attack was "quickly contained and repelled" and there were no U.S. or coalition casualties, Resolute Support, the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
Worst.Hitler.Ever.
[JPost] US President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order on Wednesday invoking Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to fight antisemitic rhetoric on college campuses.
The new executive order would also label Judaism as a nationality in addition to a religion, so it would fall into the category of Title VI. Hopefully to be followed by executive orders targeting anti-white & anti-male activities.
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First Amendment, eh? This could be entertaining if it leads to invalidating all those stupid hate speech laws and policies. There is a whole *bleep*load of people who could sue to get their jobs back for what the hippies used to call "speaking Truth to Power".
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐Scholars are claiming that King Solomon kept his concubines in shape by presenting each one of them with her own Peloton exercise bike.
"Oh, it's... a bike," one reportedly said after he unveiled the bike for her birthday, trying to conceal her displeasure. "Thank you, O great, wise Solomon! Truly you know what is best for our diet and exercise habits. You are the sagest of all men on earth!" She then went and started her year-long Peloton journey, telling everyone how nervous she was, though she was already in pretty good shape.
Solomon would record video of them exercising and shout encouraging things like "Keep it up, you can do it!" and "Smile more!" Then, a year later, they could lounge on the royal couch and watch their year of progress.
All of the women agreed: "It's just what I always wanted."
A newly discovered early manuscript of Song of Solomon confirmed the scholars' findings, as it contained the phrase "Behold, you are beautiful, my love; but really you should ride your exercise bike a lot more."
[JPost] An eyewitness has confirmed that two of the civilians murdered in Tuesday's Jersey City shooting attack are members of the local Chassidic community: Leah Minda Ferencz, who owned the store with her husband, and Moshe Deutsch, 24, Chabad.org reported. A third victim was identified earlier as veteran police officer Joe Seals, father of five, by the mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop.
The attack is now being investigated as a hate crime. According to Fulop, those who opened fire in a Jewish supermarket on Tuesday "targeted the location they attacked."
...The officers arrived at the kosher market where suspects opened fire with long guns, according to ABC News. At least one suspect allegedly continued firing at responders as they retreated. I don't know if it belongs in WOT, but - until we know more ... 48 hour rule I'll take frequently used Islamic names for $600. Alex.
There is no way it's not an antisemitic if not terrorist attack. Now they'll brush it away as a 'hate crime'. Riff-raff try not to kill cops. They do their gang thing and throw down their weapons to surrender.
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(Reuters) - Police in the New York metropolitan area were put on high alert to protect Jewish neighborhoods after an hours-long gunbattle with two men around a Jersey City kosher market that killed six people, authorities said.
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Chaim Deutsch, a councillor in nearby New York City, tweeted on Tuesday night that “evidence indicates that this attack was motivated by antisemitism.”
He continued: “This is horrifying. Jews have been attacked, beaten, & killed, simply because of our religion.”
Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop said the initial investigation suggested the kosher store had been targeted.
“I know the entire Jersey City community stands together with the Jewish Community during these challenging times,” he tweeted.
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Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, co-director of Chabad of Hoboken and Jersey City, said the kosher store is located next door to "a small, yet visible, synagogue.”
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Six people including at least two Strictly Orthodox civilians were killed on Tuesday after a gun rampage across a New Jersey town ended with two gunmen barricading themselves inside a kosher supermarket.
Two of the victims inside the building were named as members of the Chasidic community: Leah Mindel Ferencz, of Jersey City, who owned the kosher store with her husband, and Moshe Hirsch Deutsch, 24, from Brooklyn.
The violence broke out when police were pursuing the gunmen in connection to a separate murder investigation.
One of them opened fire at an officer, killing him, before they both fled in a stolen rental truck and driving a mile to Jersey City’s Greenville neighbourhood, where dozens of Chasidic families have relocated in recent years.
Three civilians were killed in the hours-long gunfight with police that followed. Hatzalah paramedics were among those responding to the stand-off.
Local politicians said the attackers deliberately targeted the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Jr Drive.
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Initial shooting site, Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery. Were shooters attempting to set up an ambush, but were discovered by officer in plain clothes ?
The cemetery contains a section which is an early Jewish burial ground, unique to Hudson County.
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OK, lets do some figuring.
If it were Muslims, it would be mystifying crime instead of hate crime.
If it were whites, we would have their names + (carefully) selected parts of their social media postings by now.
So, it's gotta be "Illegal Americans" or "African Americans".
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The 26/11 Mumbai attack was a cluster strike. It featured an attack on a south bombay chabad house, as well as other spectacles in public places. The chabad house was one of the primary directions given to the elements by their handlers in Pakistan. They covered considerable distance on foot with weapons to get there, skipping other targets like malls and restaurants. So we know that according to their target selection parameters, a chabad house or even a jewish family gathering ranks higher than say, a VVIP or high density commercial area.
Based on the Daily Mail update, I think this was intended to be one, too. The calm approach to the shop suggests the attack was planned, and the large amount of ammunition suggests that after a massacre of all in the shop, they would have moved on to the nearby synagogue and school. Thank goodness the beat cops jumped in right away and stopped them there.
[Hot Air] Count William Barr among those unconvinced that Michael Horowitz’ report has vindicated anything about Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The Attorney General sat down with NBC News’ Pete Williams and declared that he disagreed that the FBI had a "sufficient predicate" for opening an intelligence operation against a major-party presidential candidate in the first place. Barr cited "gross abuses" and "inexplicable behavior" that leads him to conclude that the totality of Horowitz’ findings still "leaves open the possibility that there was bad faith."
As I noted earlier today, this raises some questions about how Barr plans to work with current FBI director Christopher Wray after Horowitz’ stinging indictment. Wray seemed happy to accept the conclusion that there was no evidence of political motivation, although Wray’s satisfaction glossed over the passive nature of the conclusion. It also glosses over the fact that both of his bosses don’t accept that passive conclusion, and the fact that Barr has been kept abreast of John Durham’s criminal probe into Crossfire Hurricane, which has a much broader scope and jurisdiction than the IG did.
One has to wonder what Durham has already told Barr. The AG is normally a careful man, especially in his public statements. At least for now, Barr seems convinced that there’s more to the predication issue than what Horowitz found, and Durham has already made a public statement to that effect. More shoes seem likely to drop, in other words.
[The Federalist] With the release of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s FISA report, it is clear that Christopher Steele, the man who kickstarted the Mueller investigation with his infamous "dossier," exaggerated hearsay claims and reported them as fact. Here to corroborate this was Steele’s very own "Primary Sub-source."
The identity of Steele’s primary sub-source has not been disclosed to the public. Steele never even disclosed the identity of his primary sub-source to the FBI. The FBI identified him or her by January 2017, however, and arranged a meeting.
In the meeting, the primary sub-source told the FBI "that he/she had not seen Steele’s reports until they became public that month, and that he/she made statements indicating that Steele misstated or exaggerated the Primary Sub-source’s statements in multiple sections of the reporting," the report reads.
In March 2017, the primary sub-source was questioned again by a Washington Field Office agent and repeated the same conclusion: that Steele was exaggerating hearsay as conclusive.
Piss fables. In the presidential suite of Moscow's oldest, most beautiful and elegant hotel, supposedly committed by a man whose fortune derives from building and operating luxury hotels. Right.
Even more absurd - totally unremarked upon, btw, thanks to the near-total ignorance of Russia and the naive stupidity of our political and media elites - is the fact that no western real estate figure of any consequence could ever establish a major commercial real estate footprint in the heart of the Russian capital. Prestige properties are off limits to foreigners. So the parallel notion that Trump was seriously angling for real business concessions from the Kremlin - which doesn't even allocate these properties, btw; that would be the mayor of Moscow - was equally idiotic.
Iirc the supposed "smoking gun" evidence of Trump people seeking favors was a cold email sent by Junior to "the Kremlin." With the email address MISSPELLED.
And note the supposed quid in all this: that Trump if elected would ... do what, exactly, for Putin? Sign a disastrous treaty? Trump RIPPED UP our arms control treaty with Russia. Relax sanctions? Trump EXTENDED AND EXPANDED the sanctions. Do more business with Russia? Trump SHUT DOWN RUSSIA'S CONSULATES and trade offices around the US. Do Putin's bidding? Trump is not Putin's puppet; he's Putin's nightmare. We are closer to war with Russia than we have ever been in the last 35, perhaps even 57, years.
God these people are stupid. And they think we're even stupider, that we will swallow their absurd horseshit and applaud their nonstop parade of nonsense on stilts.
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^ True, point taken, grom. Modify to read that Trump has shown more resolve, more willingness to stand up to Russia than we ever saw from his two predecessors.
[Washington Examiner] Six months before a Saudi gunman opened fire at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida last week, the FBI warned about the loophole he used to obtain a gun.
In May, the FBI issued a report, titled "Federal Hunting License Exception Could Be Exploited by Extremists or Criminal Actors Seeking to Obtain Firearms for Violent Attacks," warning "participating organizations" that receive briefings on relevant issues about the loophole, according to Yahoo News.
In it, the bureau encouraged businesses to be aware that "extremists and other criminal actors could exploit the federal statutory exception that allows non-immigrant visa holders" who normally cannot purchase firearms or ammunition to legally buy them "with a valid hunting license or permit."
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Warning? Please tell me again who actually owns the 'Federal' background check process ?
WIKI - The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a United States system for determining if prospective firearms or explosives buyers' name and birth year match those of a person who is not eligible to buy. It was mandated by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Law) of 1993 and launched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1998.
[Washington Examiner] Former FBI attorney Lisa Page is suing the Department of Justice and the FBI for violating her privacy by releasing her personal information to the public.
Page, 39, announced her lawsuit over Twitter on Tuesday. The attorney alleges that the DOJ and the FBI’s release of text messages between her and then-FBI agent Peter Strzok violated Privacy Act provisions regulating the release of private information to the media.
"I sued the Department of Justice and FBI today," Page said. "I take little joy in having done so. But what they did in leaking my messages to the press was not only wrong, it was illegal."
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When I use company equipment, nothing is considered 'private' or "mine". If she was using any sort of official issued phone for this or computer, there IS no right to privacy.
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I used my personal cell as both personal/business cell because I didn't want to carry two (and most of my contacts knew not to abuse it). The rules allowed reimbursement but also required my acceptance of their ability to DL and review my files. As most who know me know....that could be PC problematic. I never took the stipend ;-)
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[Rudaw] At a military base in Bnaslawa, Erbil, Peshmerga forces receive training from the Kurdistan Training Coordination Center (KTCC).
Participants receive two months of training for ten hours a day. This particular group of trainees is made up mostly of Yezidi women.
Fighters receive training in attack, defense and rescue.
"This will teach us how to conduct military attacks, how to withdraw, and how to deal with the injuries. It helps us deal with roadside kabooms," Peshmerga member Herish Abdulrahman says.
A US-led, counter-ISIS coalition is in charge of the KTCC. Established in 2014, the 81-country coalition supported the Peshmerga in the fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group (ISIS).
One of the coalition’s focuses has been the counter-ISIS training of Peshmerga. Over 40,000 Peshmerga have so far received training.
[Rudaw] Iraqi protesters have clashed with police and torched government offices, a premier has resigned and precious blood spilt. As modern institutions collapse, a centuries-old force is making a comeback: Iraq’s tribes.
With their own hierarchies, moral and justice codes, not to mention huge arms caches, tribes have once again become among the most powerful actors in Iraq’s rural and oil-rich south.
They have a history of revolt, turning against the British colonising forces in a major boost to the 1920 uprising that led to the country’s independence.
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[ToloNews] An operation was launched in Trinkot (Tarin Kot) city to clear the bad boys, according to Afghan Special Forces ...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... At least 12 Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... were killed in a clearing operation by Afghan commandos in Uruzgan province, the Afghan Special Forces Command said in a statement on Tuesday.
The operation was launched in Trinkot (Tarin Kot), the capital of Uruzgan, and "eight Taliban havens were destroyed," according to the statement by the spokespeople for the Afghan commandos.
"The forces also seized explosives, land mines and destroyed six tunnels," the statement said.
[ToloNews] "157,000" Killed in the Afghan Conflict Since 2001: Documents.
More than 2,000 pages of previously unpublished "confidential" documents were released by the Washington Post on Monday containing, in many cases, very candid appraisals by government officials, diplomats, military officers and aid workers of the post-2001 war effort in Afghanistan. Many of the reports were critical of how the war was conducted‐on every level‐and how falsely it was reported up the chain of command and to the public.
Jeffrey Eggers, a retired Navy SEAL and White House official under Bush and Obama, asked in a Lessons Learned interview included in the collection:
"Why did we make the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... the enemy when we were attacked by al-Qaeda? Why did we want to defeat the Taliban?"
Eggers also said: "Collectively the system is incapable of taking a step back to question basic assumptions."
Douglas Lute, an Army general who later became the US Ambassador to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... , told government interviewers in 2015: "We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan ‐ we didn’t know what we were doing," He added: "What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking."
The Washington Post characterized the interviews as revealing that "senior US officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable."
According to the documents, 157,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan since the US-led military invasion in the country in late 2001.
The document states that an estimated 43,074 Afghan civilians, 64,124 Afghan security force members and 42,100 Taliban fighters have died so far. Also, 7,295 foreigners--among them 3,814 US contractors, 1,145 coalition forces’ members and 2,300 American soldiers--have died as well.
One senior National Security Council official said the B.O. regime and Pentagon pushed metrics that portrayed the 2009 decision to surge 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in an inaccurately positive light:
"It was impossible to create good metrics. We tried using troop numbers trained, violence levels, control of territory and none of it painted an accurate picture," and "The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war."
Afghans responded to TOLOnews on Tuesday with reactions to the released documents:
"Not only me and the Afghan people, but the American people as well are not satisfied with what has been achieved in view of war expenditures," said Fida Mohammad Ulfat, a politician in Afghan parliament.
"The expenditures should have been spent on a series of plans, authentic programs and working strategies based on the ground realities and this would have helped to get a better outcome," said Mohammad Asif, the former governor of Parwan.
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The US is in the unenviable habit of seeking tigers to try to ride. I've been suspicious of the tallies and the 'heavy defeats' to the taliban, the 'devastating air attacks' and the 'scores killed !'
This data shows more civs and friendlies dead than tangos. It means utter loss. For once, I agree with Herb's take on the whole thing. Why the hell are you still there ? Is it to ensure some narrative that will surely lean against you if you leave ? The narrative at home will indict you if you don't leave !
There's just no shame or loss in admitting 'This fucking thing is too muslim for us, we're out.'
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These people have no idea what they're fucking doing and they're running US policy. The thing that they're good at is spending money. $3 million dollars a day? US Congress can't spend that kind of money and yet that's what a commander in Afghanistan was required to spend.
What's it going to take to get people to understand that the war in Afghanistan is about making money for the deep state/unelected government/military-industrial complex? They're not even bothering to try to win the war. They've been lavishly funded and if they were going to win the war, they would have done it by now. We've spent more in Afghanistan than we did in Germany on the Marshall Plan. And got fuck-all to show for it except wealthy bureaucrats.
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If it were not for the heroin, I'd say it was a cultural ego thing, especially in the military-bureaucratic mindset. But as people have called out here, there's a great dearth of civilizational confidence anyway. Maybe the State Dept types are just the ones high on ego. Maybe their accounts are 'high' on something else ?
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Heroin, shmeroin. The international new class: from the lowest DMW clerk to highest bureaucrat/politician simply cannot admit to being wrong. Because if they'll admit to being wrong once ...
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"Why did we make the Taliban the enemy when we were attacked by al-Qaeda? Why did we want to defeat the Taliban?"
"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. "
George W. Bush, September 11th 2001
The original idea was to symmetrize an asymmetrical conflict by not acknowledging state sponsors' deniability whether plausible or not.
This idea was apparently scrapped no later than in October of 2001.
The lesson the world has learned from 9/11 is that facilitating and organizing a mass fatality attack on the US is NOT a suicidal mistake.
"Not only me and the Afghan people, but the American people as well are not satisfied with what has been achieved in view of war expenditures," said Fida Mohammad Ulfat, a politician in Afghan parliament.
Strategic retaliation after a massive attack wouldn't have been supposed to satisfy the enemy people. It would have been supposed to strengthen deterrence and dissuade further attacks.
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The need is not to admit it didn’t work and walk away, the need is to win this existential war. We’ve at least got as far as admitting that current methods don’t work. Fine. Follow the negotiators home and carpet bomb them, wherever they live, even if it is in Quetta. Clone their cell phones and devices, figure out where their friends are calling from, and bomb there. Any civilians caught in the crossfire to be considered an example to the rest to stay far away from jihadis. Destroy the madrassas that are sending their graduates to join the fight.
They want asymmetric war? Let’s show them what asymmetric really means.
The alternative is to wait until Philadelphia looks exactly like Jalalabad.
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Clone their cell phones and devices, figure out where their friends are calling from, and bomb there
Punish. Divide. Devastate.
If that ever becomes the intention, the US will find 75% of their work done for them. We're waiting for the Trump Presidency to stand firmly on it's feet. Most islamic countries that Imran has whined to know this. If India and the US simultaneously went after our respective enemies in the 'Stain, China would not come to its aid. Also, the Pak nukes would not help them if the conflict was kept LICO. Small bites by India, IDF-like ASM hits by the US on India supplied addresses. It would render the Islamic Republic helpless to fend off secessionist movements by Baloch and Khalistan rebels. Disintegration would follow into four provinces, leaving the Pakistani military leadership to either escape to England or retire to Karachi. China would have to renegotiate their OBOR thingy and deal with India, plus new provincial administrations. The hardest hits on Pak's security apparatus shall come from within in any event.
Here's hoping the Trump can lock a second term and reign in the domestic front, because that is of the utmost importance right now. A very strong hand is needed to keep your anti-nationals from just fubaring everything. Nothing short of a police fist will do. But that's just my opinion.
[ToloNews] Pashtun-infested Logar residents claimed that four children were killed in a mortar attack in Baraki Barak district of the province on Tuesday afternoon.
The residents held a protest outside the Pashtun-infested Logar governor’s office, carrying the bodies of the four children, and said the origin of the attack should be made clear.
An army commander, Brig. Gen. Abdul Matin Hassankhil, told a local news hound that a mortar might have been fired by the foreign forces.
"Today this happened, and another incident will happen tomorrow. This should be prevented," said Mohammad Hashim, a Pashtun-infested Logar resident.
"The mortar attack came from the (foreign forces) camp," a Pashtun-infested Logar resident said. "There is no Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in that area. The government has checkpoints there."
The US forces in Afghanistan issued the following statement: "We are aware of the civilian casualty claims in Baraki Barak, Pashtun-infested Logar Province. We are working with local partners to gain a full understanding of the situation and will provide more details when they are available."
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[RADIOSHABELLE] At least 20 people have been killed and about 25 others injured on Monday in fierce fighting in the outskirt of Somalia’s central region of Mudug, an official said.
Abdirahman Ali Diriye, Governor of Mudug region told news hounds that inter-clan fighting erupted at the Towfiq village in the northwest of the Mudug region between two Somali clans over land disputes.
"The fight started after one of the clans launched an attack in Dire Revenge for past killings. There was a stiff battle between two militias and 20 people, most of them from the warring sides died during the festivities and 25 others were maimed," Diriye said.
"We are now dispatching elders from the administration to cease the fight," he added.
Locals told media they heard heavy gunfire. "An intense combat broke out between two rival clans who were killing each other sporadically. There were many casualties in today’s battle," Fahmo Haji, a resident said.
The government has called for an immediate end to the fighting that caused the death of many people.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali government forces have carried out a massive operation in the southern town of Wanlweyn located in the long-chaotic Lower Shabelle region, bordering Mogadishu.
The sweep came after unknown button men launched an attack in the district and subsequently killed an inhabitant over undisclosed circumstances.
Local security officials say an investigation is underway into the overnight incident and will bring the perpetrators to justice.
The town has been under the Somali government control for nearly 10 years and faced frequent attacks from al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... , the al-Qaeda-linked turbans fighting in the country.
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[Al Jazeera] Thousands of students have thronged the streets of the capital, Algiers, to call for authorities to cancel a contentious presidential election scheduled for December 12.
In the last of a series of weekly protests before the vote, the young demonstrators, who want root-and-branch political reforms and the departure of the country's ruling elite, were joined by workers, retired employees, and homemakers accompanied by their children.
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Given all the evidence uncovered in the Hillary-Obama coup, why are more countries playing this game against miscreants here? Other than they themselves support the coup.
[WashingtonPost] A confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.
The documents were generated by a federal project examining the root failures of the longest armed conflict in U.S. history. They include more than 2,000 pages of previously unpublished notes of interviews with people who played a direct role in the war, from generals and diplomats to aid workers and Afghan officials.
"We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan ‐ we didn’t know what we were doing," Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015. He added: "What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking."
With most speaking on the assumption that their remarks would not become public, U.S. officials acknowledged that their warfighting strategies were fatally flawed and that Washington wasted enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation. The text is extensively hyperlinked to the source documents. Please click through, because linking from external source isn't working.
John Sopko, the head of the federal agency that conducted the interviews, acknowledged to The Post that the documents show "the American people have constantly been lied to." Two major consistent themes from the documents are‐
1.the manipulation on a mass scale of statistics fed to the public in order to hide the true disastrous nature of the war; and...
2.US leaders "turning a blind eye" to large scale theft of US tax payer dollars by corrupt Afghan officials.
The interviews are the byproduct of a project led by Sopko’s agency, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Known as SIGAR, the agency was created by Congress in 2008 to investigate waste and fraud in the war zone.
In 2014, at Sopko’s direction, SIGAR departed from its usual mission of performing audits and launched a side venture. Titled "Lessons Learned," the $11 million project was meant to diagnose policy failures in Afghanistan so the United States would not repeat the mistakes the next time it invaded a country or tried to rebuild a shattered one. The next time...Jesus. How about we stop invading countries? Just think of all the nice things we could have had with that $1,000,000,000,000. Bernie Sanders' "free college" plan, widely mocked as unaffordable, was $60 billion a year. Trump's wall is $25 billion one-time. We could have a continent-spanning fast rail system. We could have free medical care for all US citizens. What do we get instead? A worthless war that's old enough to go to college itself, thousands of dead Americans and hundreds of thousands more maimed for life physically or mentally, and no end in sight.
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...What we should have done, what we NEED to do, is level the goddamned place and leave then make it clear we will repeat the work as many times as needed until they figure it out.
No aid, no nation building, no NOTHING. If they want to live in the 12th century with an occasional dose of high-tech apocalypse, then let 'em.
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When you have no defined goal you can not measure progress.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday said Moscow wanted to publish a cache of communications with Washington that he said cleared Russia of allegations it interfered in the 2016 US election, but that the United States has blocked their release.
During a joint news conference with his US counterpart, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Lavrov once again dismissed the American accusation that Moscow tried to sway the 2016 election, which resulted in the upset victory of President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... "We suggested to our colleagues that in order to dispel all suspicions that are baseless: Let us publish this close channel of correspondence starting from October 2016 until November 2017 so it would all become very clear to many people," Lavrov said through an interpreter at the news conference.
"However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... regrettably, this administration refused to do so," added Lavrov, who has begun his meeting with Trump at the White House. "We are prepared to do that, to publish the correspondence that took place."
It was not immediately clear what communications Lavrov was referring to.
He said Moscow "used the channels that existed" between Washington and Moscow at the time in 2016 with the B.O. regime, and had got "zero response" when it appealed for an opportunity to directly discuss the allegations.
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As if this country's raging Shitshow needs any help from foreigners to become any more ridiculous
[Al Jazeera] An international panel of experts hired to advise Hong Kong's police watchdog in its handling of huge pro-democracy protests announced on Wednesday they were quitting, in a major setback for the government.
The move came a month after a leaked statement from the group revealed they felt the city's police watchdog was not equipped to carry out a proper investigation.
Instead, they suggested a fully independent inquiry would be better suited for such a large task.
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[Dhaka Tribune] Narayanganj police on Tuesday arrested six people accused in a case filed for gangraping a teenager on Monday in Fatullah upazila.
The girl filed a case on Monday night with Fatullah Model cop shoppe after the rape incident, said acting Superintendent of Police (SP) Monirul Islam in a press briefing at the cop shoppe.
The arrested are: Rasel, 38, Sujan, 23, Shahadat, 22, Suman, 22, Robin, 23, and Md Al Amin, 21, all from the same upazila.
According to the case statement, the girl was being escorted home by her cousin after her work at a factory ended on Monday evening. The accused men kidnapped the girl and her cousin from the road and gangraped her, letting them go after the rape.
SP Monirul said: "After we were informed of the incident on the 999 hotline, a police team led a drive in the locality and arrested them within six hours."
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[NPASYRIA] Since its control over the Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin in March of last year, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... has followed the policy of demographic change, which is manifested in the recruitment of residents of other Syrian regions and settling them in the homes of the local people of Afrin, and the policy of forced displacement against the local people, in addition to changing the names of the streets, squares, villages, shops, markets and schools, and imposing the Ottoman Turkish language curricula in the region.
After displacing about 350 thousand people from Afrin, Turkey intends to bring the people of Eastern Ghouta (eastern Damascus), Idlib, and other areas of Syria to settle in the homes of the displaced people of Afrin, in conjunction with the forced displacement of the indigenous people of the region, to carry out kidnappings and threatening them with death and demanding a ransom, in addition to the distribution of local people's properties among them.
Turkey is trying, through the approach of demographic change, to implement the Ottoman Turkish on the region, to convert it from Kurdish and Arabic into Ottoman Turkish.
"North Press" obtained pictures from inside Afrin region, documenting the demographic change operations in the region, where the names of schools were replaced into the Ottoman Turkish language, in addition to raising the Ottoman Turkish flags on all the buildings and villages in the region.
On the background of the seizure and sharing of the properties of the people of Afrin, the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition groups have written their names on the shops and homes of the local people.
In this regard, "North Press" has obtained pictures from the region documenting the registration of those gangs of their names on the walls of the shops and houses, in order to share these properties among them.
The obtained Pictures show the names of these bully boy groups (Failaq al-Sham, al-Faruq Brigade, Jaish al-Failaq, Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, al-Ghab Sector), the names appear on the pictures written on the walls of the houses and properties of the displaced people of Afrin.
After the Ottoman Turkish military and its armed opposition groups took control over Afrin, festivities erupted between those militias because of their dispute over the sharing of the seized properties of the local civilians, where disputes and crashes caused the death and injury of dozens of those bully boys.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Monday indicted the alleged rapist-cum-killer of several minor boys of Chunian in one of the cases during the first hearing of jail trial.
ATC Judge Abdul Qayyum Khan commenced the trial in Kot Lakhpat Jail when Special Prosecutor Abdul Rauf Wattoo presented the charge sheet against Sohail Shahzad in the murder case of a minor victim, Faizan.
The prosecutor read the charges before the court while the suspect denied the same and opted to defend the case.
The judge also recorded statements of 12 prosecution witnesses and adjourned further hearing till Dec 10 (today).
Shahzad had been charged with kidnapping, raping and killing four minor boys. Three of them were residents of Chunian’s Ghosia Colony and one of Rana Town. Their bodies were recovered from sand dunes in and around the Chunian Industrial Area.
The decision will have far-reaching impacts on visiting Saudi personnel, including grounding more than 300 Saudi Arabian military aviation students as part of a “safety stand-down,” first reported by Reuters earlier on Tuesday.
The Pentagon later confirmed the Reuters report about aviation students and added the move would also affect infantry personnel and all other Saudi training, other than classroom training. Such coursework, which includes English-language classes, will continue.
A senior US defense official, briefing Pentagon reporters on the decision, said the move was intended to allow for a broader review of security procedures that would eventually apply to all of some 5,000 international military students in the United States.
Still, the safety standdown only applied to the some 850 visiting students from Saudi Arabia. The defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the shooting “suggested that there could be a particular improvement with that (nation’s) population.”
The FBI has said US investigators believe Saudi Air Force Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, acted alone when he attacked a US Navy base in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, before he was fatally shot by a deputy sheriff.
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The French have intensified their background checks while recruiting and have started watching their muslim personnel, some have been stripped of their access to arms even. Everywhere, there have been some transfers and shuffles, and more must be in the making to move muslim personnel into administrative, PR, clerical work etc. It can't be done all at the same time, but I'm sure if done gradually the muslim infiltration can be reversed.
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See! See! This is the Islamophobic backlash that the Muslims feared!!! /sarcasm
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Saw another article that said 850 grounded. Even if the lower number - how the hell big is the Saudi AF that it needs classes for hundreds? Or are these all "Princes" who "need" to be pilots rather than dirty, common grunts?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In April, the man who will be Britannia’s finance minister in a Labour government sought to reassure the head of the country’s biggest telecoms group BT that it would not feature in his sweeping nationalization plans.
On the sidelines of a conference in London amid rumors about Labour’s ambitions, John McDonnell told Chief Executive Philip Jansen: "BT is not part of our plans," according to a person briefed on the talks.
But without warning, McDonnell last month stunned the company and the business community by pledging to take over its broadband network and provide free internet for all if Labour wins power in this week’s election. He has not met BT since.
McDonnell said he cannot remember what he discussed with BT but the account is probably accurate. The policy was developed a few months ago in response to anger among the public and business over slow broadband.
"This connectivity issue is absolutely critical to our economy," he told Rooters. "We are trying to develop a fourth industrial revolution here and we can’t be held back by anyone."
The move confirmed the fears of many executives that McDonnell’s promise of the most radical socialist government in British history will end the pro-business climate that has endured since the days of Margaret Thatcher.
Labour policies include plans to nationalize rail, mail, utility and water companies, give 10 percent of big companies’ shares to staff, bring in a four-day working week, hike taxes on the wealthy, and ramp up borrowing and spending.
The party says social discontent behind Britannia’s shock 2016 vote to leave the Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... an Union still runs deep, and voters who feel left behind by decades of unchecked capitalism and years of spending cuts will put Labour in power.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...pro-Brexit British prime minister, succeeding no-Brexit Theresa May. BoJo is noted as much for his sparkling personality and his hair as for his Conservative policies.... ’s opinion poll lead has narrowed recently, meaning Labour could lead a minority government in charge of the world’s fifth-largest economy.
Polls also show more than half of the public support nationalization of rail and water companies, higher taxes on the rich and putting workers on boards. But the agenda has put Labour on a collision course with business.
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[NYPOST] Another case of a good decision making bad law. I can't see how a sentence served for a crime at state level should be ignored at federal level, anymore than a sentence served at federal level should be prosecuted a second time at state level. What comes next? County court, followed by city court? There's that Constitutional thingy about double jeopardy.
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That Constitution is only as good as the men and women empowered to interpret it. They basically left the room over 50 years ago.
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The constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy only applies to the sovereign attempting a prosecution. States and the federal government are separate sovereigns so prosecution by one sovereign does not prevent prosecution by another sovereign. Usually in practice the federal government prosecutes someone when the state or local government refuses to prosecute. In the instant situation the federal government had pending charges against Ramos for for matters other than the state charges for which she went to prison so double jeopardy is inapplicable in any event.
[Al Jazeera] Argentina's ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... Peronist ...another whack at Fascism that did't work, except for the musical... leader Alberto Fernandez was sworn in as president on Tuesday, marking a shift to the left for Latin America's third-largest economy, which is suffering rampant inflation, credit default fears and rising poverty.
The 60-year-old centre-left politician took his presidential oath in front of cheering politicians at Congress along with politicians from the region and representatives from major trade partners including Brazil and the United States.
Fernandez takes over from conservative Mauricio Macri, who symbolically handed the incoming leader the presidential baton and sash.
[NYPOST] The Democrats believe that the 2020 election is too important to be left to the voters. It’s obvious that President Trump withheld defense aid to Ukraine to pressure its president to commit to the investigations that he wanted, an improper use of his power that should rightly be the focus of congressional investigation and hearings.
Where the Democrats have gotten tangled up is trying to find a justification that supports the enormous weight of impeaching and removing a president for the first time in our history.
They’ve cycled through different arguments. First, Trump’s offense was said to be a quid pro quo ‐ a phrase cast aside for supposedly being too Latin for the public to understand. Then it was bribery, which has lost ground lately, presumably because of the inherent implausibility of the charge.
Now, the emphasis is on Trump’s invitation to the Ukrainians to "meddle" and "interfere" in our elections.
This is posited to be an ongoing threat. Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... said in her statement calling on the House to draft articles of impeachment: "Our democracy is what is at stake. The president leaves us no choice but to act, because he is trying to corrupt, once again, the election for his own benefit. The president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our national security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said on "Meet the Press" last weekend that Trump has to be impeached "for posing the considerable risk that he poses to the next election." Asked if he thinks the 2020 election will be on the up-and-up, he said, "I don’t know. The president, based on his past performance, will do everything he can to make it not a fair election."
The gravamen of this case is that the election is too crucial to allow the incumbent president of the United States, who is leading in key battleground states and has some significant chance of winning, to run. In fact, the integrity of the election is so at risk that the US Senate should keep the public from rendering a judgment on Trump’s first term or deciding between him and, say, his nemesis Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... .
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Look??? They are and according to them we can vote to elect anyone we want as long as it is their swamp rat. The people are speaking, they should listen. Look at his latest rally, thousands in attendance. We are one step from it getting violent.
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49Pan, the dems are tickling the dragon's tail.
They are playing around with subcritical stuff that can go supercritical with just a little action in a hair trigger situation, and blow up literally in their faces.
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[NYPOST] Jim Comey’s FBI comes off pretty bad in the long-awaited report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and the IG didn’t even look at much of "Crossfire Hurricane," the FBI’s investigation of the Trump campaign and its possible links to Russia.
Yes, Horowitz says the FBI had adequate reason to open the case ‐ but only because it has such a "low threshold" for opening counterintelligence investigations.
In this case, it was an Australian diplomat’s months-old memory of a vague conversation with low-level Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos: The Aussie said the Yank had said a Russian had raised the possibility of handing over dirt on Crooked Hillary Clinton
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From the very day I heard about the James Comey March 11, 2004, "ICU hospital showdown" which involved the seriously ill AG John Ashcroft,
I knew that Comey had a superiority complex as I have pointed out many times before on Rantburg comments.
It was this messiah complex that led Comey to also insert himself into and mess with the Hillary Clinton email server investigation just prior to the 2016 Presidential election.
And in the end this high opinion of himself lead Comey into trying to frame President Trump in order to expose the supposed danger that the president was to the country.
The great hypocrisy is the very thing Comey was trying to prevent by the hospital room showdown to prevent the Bush administration from renewing the NSA's post 9/11 Terrorist Surveillance Program, code-named STELLAR WIND,
where Comey supposedly became the nations protector and hero against the intrusive surveillance state of the Bush administration,
is it any wonder that Comey would see himself having to resort to the same obtrusive surveillance tactics through the means of getting a phony FISA court authorization in order to launch a secret investigation into the "Obama administration initiated" Trump "Russian collusion" narrative/hoax,
in order to justify spying on a presidential candidate in order to interfere with the 2016 presidential election and to undermine the Trump administration in "collusion" with the mainstream media.
The very thing that Comey's FBI was trying to do, and did by kicking off the Special Council Mueller investigation is the very same thing Adam Schiff and the house democrats are trying to do;
is to impeach Trump on the grounds of trying to interfere in the 2020 presidential election by exposing the "Biden's" corruption in Ukraine.
In Bill O'Reilly's words, "If you punch Trump, he is going to punch you back."
Our reporter: Heavy artillery shelling by the Turkish-backed armed opposition groups targeting the village of Mayasa in Shirawa district, south of Afrin, and villages of Shawargha, Malikiyah villas, and Maraanaz in Sharran district, east of Afrin. pic.twitter.com/yrr54xBXOr
[DAWN] Pakistain will no longer look for neutral venues to stage home international cricket matches.
"The onus will be on the other teams to tell us why they can't play in Pakistain," Pakistain Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on Tuesday. Ummm... Searching for the right words to descibed thast statement... Oh, yeah. "Arrogant bastards." That about covers it.
"Our default position will remain that Pakistain is safe. We play cricket in Pakistain (and if) you want to play against Pakistain you have to come to Pakistain."
Pakistain's decade-long isolation from hosting test cricket ends on Wednesday when Sri Lanka will play at Pindi Cricket Stadium. The second test will be in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... from December 19-23. The series is part of the world Test championship.
Sri Lanka was the last team to play a test in Pakistain in 2009. Terrorists attacked the teams bus in Lahore and eight people were killed. Several Sri Lanka players and team officials were maimed. The ambush shut the door on international cricket in Pakistain. The PCB organised almost all of its home matches in the United Arab Emirates.
In the last four years, the PCB staged short limited-overs tours against the likes of Zim-bob-we, the West Indies, Sri Lanka and a World XI to show the cricket world it could host tours safely.
Sri Lanka agreed to play two test matches in Pakistain only after it visited Karachi and Lahore three months ago and played an incident-free series of one-day internationals and Twenty20s.
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Our default position will remain that Pakistain is safe.
It's one thing to be delusional, but quite another to insist we all participate.
BTW, did they ever figure out that Benazir Bhutto thing?
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The death ? She was killed by the ISI for Musharraf. He got the taliban to proudly declare they did it. Then he got the CIA to get the US forces to kill the taliban guy who claimed it, tying up loose ends.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said stability in Lebanon, which has been rocked by more than a month of protests that forced the prime minister to resign, was “very, very important” to the kingdom.
Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud said he would not “pre-judge” a conference planned this week in Paris to support Lebanon, which is facing its worst economic crisis since the 1975-90 civil war. “I’ll wait for the results of the conference.”
The Lebanese people and the political system need to find a way forward that guarantees its stability and sovereignty, he told a news conference - following the conclusion of the GCC 40th Summit held in Riyadh - in response to a question regarding aid to Lebanon.
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[DAWN] The United States on Tuesday blacklisted former Malir senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rao Anwar for engaging in "serious human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. abuse" by carrying out alleged fake police 'encounters' in which scores of individuals including Wazoo native Naqeebullah Mehsud were killed, the US Treasury Department said.
Anwar is among 18 individuals from six countries that the Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions on for suspected human rights violations. Two others have been banned from entering the US, including the former consul general of Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... for his alleged role in the murder of Saudi journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi ......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal...... . Tuesday's announcement was made in connection with International Human Rights Day.
"During his tenure as the Senior Superintendent of Police in District Malir, Pakistain, Rao Anwar Khan (Anwar) was reportedly responsible for staging numerous fake police encounters in which individuals were killed by police, and was involved in over 190 police encounters that resulted in the deaths of over 400 people, including the murder of Naqeebullah Mehsood," the US Treasury said in a statement.
Update: Somali security forces evacuate officials from a hotel near the presidential palace in the capital Mogadishu, after a failed attempt by gunmen to storm the heavily fortified residential and office complex, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent.https://t.co/T4LeKNk9xs
[Aljazeera] Al-Shabab gunmen have attacked a hotel near the presidential palace in Somalia's capital, according to police and the armed group.
Fighting was still continuing following Tuesday's attack on SYL hotel in Mogadishu.
"We thought they were police but they started hurling grenades and firing us when they neared and so we exchanged fire at the gate of the hotel," a police officer who gave his name as Ahmed told Reuters news agency.
Zakia Hussen, Somalia's deputy police commissioner, said security forces killed two of the attackers outside the hotel and were fighting two others on the premises.
"So far, security forces have rescued 82 people, both civilians and officials," Zakia said on her Twitter account.
Abdi-Aziz Abu Mus'ab, al-Shabab's military spokesman, confirmed the group was behind the attack and said its fighters were inside the hotel compound, which is popular with government officials and politicians.
The attack on Tuesday evening, claimed by the Islamist group al-Shabaab, took place at a hotel in Mogadishu popular with politicians, army officers and diplomats.
Several witnesses told AFP that the assailants were dressed in police uniform, which allowed them to approach the hotel without arousing suspicion.
They then opened fire and threw grenades, triggering an armed response from security forces guarding checkpoints leading to the nearby presidential palace.
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[DAWN] The Afghan Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... kidnapped as many as 45 elderly family members of a late Afghan government employee who were attending his funeral, officials said on Tuesday.
The Taliban singled out the old men from a funeral procession carrying the dear departed employee's coffin to a graveyard, according to interior ministry front man Nasrat Rahimi. The young men in the group were not taken, he said.
The Taliban have consistently warned people not to attend the funerals of anyone working with the Kabul government, according to Payghambarpul Khuram, the head of intelligence in Jawzjan province, where the kidnappings took place.
Khuram disputed the number of people who were kidnapped, saying only six family members were taken and that other local elders were negotiating with the Taliban for their release.
The Taliban did not immediately comment on the abduction.
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[Al Jazeera] A former Mexican official has been charged in the United States with accepting millions of dollars of bribes from the Sinaloa drugs cartel, once run by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, to enable it to operate with impunity in Mexico, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, was arrested in Dallas, Texas, on Monday, and is expected to be moved to Brooklyn, New York, to face the charges, the US Department of Justice said.
A lawyer for the defendant could not immediately be identified.
[NPASYRIA] Erdogan's motives for signing two memoranda of understanding with Libya, specifically with the Presidential Council of Fayez al-Sarraj are many. The first memorandum is military, which gives The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... the freedom to use the Libyan airspace, establishing military bases on Libyan territories without permission from its authorities, the second is marine and related to energy extraction from the Mediterranean Sea. Both memoranda provoked the Libyan, regional and international angry reactions.
What is remarkable about the Ottoman Turkish behavior after the signing of the two memoranda is the Ottoman Turkish parliament’s rushing to ratify them, and Ankara’s indifference to the rejecting responses, especially from the Libyan parties which considered the signing of the two memoranda in the manner that took place is illegal, as the signing of foreign agreements according to the Libyan al-Skheirat agreement requires the sign of all members of the Libyan Presidential Council, and they are nine members. While the one who signed the memorandum was only the president of the council, which lost the legitimacy when signing the two memoranda. Libya is also under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Security Council, which deprives it legally from the sovereign agreements.
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[BREITBART] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-CA) on Tuesday indicated that Democrats must impeach President Trump quickly in order to stop him from prevailing in the 2020 presidential election.
Democrats on Tuesday unveiled two articles of impeachment against the president: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Notably, neither allege a high crime or misdemeanor. Noticeably absent was the Democrats’ longheld appeal to bribery, extortion, or treason.
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Pre-emptive impeachment. Sure, that's the ticket.
Why don't we pre-emptively convict congressmen of corruption? Fraud, graft, perjury, campaign law violations?
Iraqi protesters defiantly turn out in the capital Baghdad, amid reports of injuries following clashes with security forces who used live bullets and tear gas, according to an Al Arabiya correspondent.https://t.co/i4vdfz8iDt
Warnings of protest sabotage have been issued by Qais al-Khazali, leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq - one of the factions of the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic.
“We will talk about information [we have obtained]. There is intelligence planning from many sides that want bad things to happen to this country, to exploit these events, to cause chaos in Baghdad province,” al-Khazali said in speech he published on Twitter.
Khazali claimed plotters are focusing on Baghdad because national destabilization can’t take place “as long as the capital is strong.”
“The events and plots of December 10 is aimed at transferring chaos to inside Baghdad, to mess with the security condition, to have as many as possible killed and injured, to have the institutions of the state burned, to have the central bank robbed.”
“Why December 10? Because it is the International Human Rights Day. These want to cause security chaos to send a message on the level of the international community, to say look at the killed, the destruction that is happening in the country, to put the responsibility on the security forces and Hashd al-Shaabi.”
The PMF, widely thought to be responsible for violence against protesters, has from day one been vocal against “plots” emanating from the protests.
Following the December 6 attack in Khilani, the group admitted its presence in the square via a statement. It also admitted that it had clashed with the Saraya al-Salam (Peace Brigades) of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a backer of the protests.
The statement was deleted soon after publication. The PMF disowned the statement, claiming its social media and website had been hacked.
PMF elements have since been dismissed from the vicinity of Khilani announced General Abdulkareem Khalaf, spokesperson for commander in chief of Iraqi armed forces.
“The commander-in-chief of the armed forces [Adil Abdul-Mahdi] issued directions to Hashd al-Shaabi about not interfering in security related matters,” Khalaf said, though the militia group remained in their Baghdad offices.
Khazali’s warnings and claims were met with ridicule by protesters in Tahrir.
“We will step on the head of Qais al-Khazali and his group with our flip flops,” they were heard to chant.
In light of today’s expected escalation of unrest, the US Embassy in Baghdad on Monday announced a travel advisory to Americans in Iraq, excluding the Kurdistan Region.
“According to reports, demonstrations are expected to increase in size starting on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. US citizens may see a heavy security presence,” the advisory read.
The embassy called on Americans to avoid areas of demonstrations and comply with directives of authorities.
The entire family is in agreement, because he was mean to Jeb.
"Please clap"
[DAILYCALLER] Republican Texas congressional candidate Pierce Bush, the grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, marched in an anti-Trump protest in January 2017, according to photos he posted on his personal Facebook page.
Bush jumped into the GOP primary for Texas’ 22nd Congressional District on Monday. "It’s time for new leaders to stand for conservatism that empowers all Americans, placing individuals above government and ensuring we all have the freedom to achieve success in life," he said in his launch video.
While Bush might benefit from his family name in running for a congressional seat once held by his late grandfather, his past anti-Trump activism could be a stumbling block in an already crowded primary race.
"In the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, my sister, Lauren, and I marched near Battery Park NYC (where people arrived after leaving Ellis Island) with thousands of people today against the immigration ban. No ban. No fear. Refugees are welcome here. #nationofimmigrants colonists #diversityisourstrength," Bush wrote in a Jan. 29, 2017, post that included three photos from a protest against President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s travel ban.
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"It’s time for new leaders to stand for conservatism that empowers all Americans, placing individuals above government and ensuring we all have the freedom to achieve success in life," he said in his launch video.
Two problems (at least)
1.) You Bush's were never conservatives. More like crony capitalist globalists.
2.) None of your ilk cared about American freedom. Just the freedom to do bushiness at American expense if needed.
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Bush family took over as leaders of the GOP after Reagan proving the one mistake Reagan made was putting Bush Sr as his VP. The Bush family are mediocrity writ large (the elected ones, the unelected seem nice enough).
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"It’s time for new leaders to stand for conservatism that empowers all Americans, placing individuals above government and ensuring we all have the freedom to achieve success in life," he said in his launch video.
[Prairie Farmer] Cannabis has been in the news a lot lately. Why does that concern us at USDA? Well, whether it’s industrial hemp, medical cannabis, or recreational marijuana, it’s all considered marijuana, which was all illegal according to the federal government before the 2018 Farm Bill. As such, USDA programs ‐ including conservation technical and programmatic assistance ‐ were not available to anyone in violation of federal law. But in the 2018 Farm Bill, we saw some major changes in policy, and those changes were implemented in 2019.
Humans have used cannabis for thousands of years. As a plant, various species of the Cannabis genus have been cultivated. The most common species is Cannabis sativa. We recognized the plant’s value for fiber, medicine and religious utility. (By the way, just to clear up a common misconception, the marijuana plant isn’t native to this country, so marijuana was not the staple of traditional North American Indian pipe ceremonies.) Just like with other modern crops, our ancestors selected the most desirable characteristics, and we’ve ended up with plants that have similar features but very different internal chemistry.
Think of corn as an example. Flint corn, dent corn, flour corn, sweet corn, popcorn ‐ it’s all corn. It’s hard to tell the difference when it’s young, but some of its differences manifest themselves in stature, color or flavor.
New federal policy says farmers can now grow the variety of cannabis that contains very low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is the psychoactive constituent in cannabis, as an industrial hemp crop. So basically, farmers can produce industrial hemp for the strong fibers in the stems, the oils in its seeds, and the seed itself to sell for industrial hemp fiber and oil production purposes. Farmers must report industrial hemp acres to the Farm Service Agency, and they’ll have to comply with their state’s USDA-approved growing and license standards. Find more information at farmers.gov.
Farmers are always looking for opportunities to diversify their operations by producing a money-making crop. Hemp is popular right now, and it looks like a good option. Whether it stays popular in the marketplace or if it can be produced in such a way that it stays profitable remains to be seen.
I remember back in the ’80s when canola was touted as an alternative crop for Midwest farmers. From a growth habit, this mustard family plant was planted and harvested on a schedule similar to winter wheat. Canola oil is still popular, but the tiny seeds were difficult to harvest without significant modifications to existing farm equipment. Not all local elevators could handle the crop either. As a result, canola eventually fell out of favor.
From what I’ve seen, industrial hemp will also need some specialized equipment, and that equipment will vary depending on whether you are harvesting the stalks for those long, durable fibers, or if you are producing seed. We’ll also need a network of processing facilities. How strong is that demand?
Now that we have some of those legal issues out of the way, we can work with industrial cannabis farmers. But the Natural Resources Conservation Service still has some work to do. We need to learn more about cannabis production techniques and evaluate agronomic characteristics so we can see how it fits in from a conservation standpoint. We’re already diving in to become familiar with plant growth habits, tillage, fertilizer needs and pesticide options to see how they might affect soil erosion or water quality.
The other big question involves long-term market and consumer trends for hemp products. Will the demand stay high ‐ pun intended ‐ or will it just be a fad?
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Have to remember, though, that the primary market is a bunch of stoners that just want to get high without being hassled by The Man. Not having to go to The Projects to get their stash is a nice extra.
You don't get out much, do you? [Dhaka Tribune] Terming Bangladesh as a role model of curbing militancy and terrorism, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has aid Islam does not allow terrorism and militancy.
"We have successfully controlled militancy following the zero tolerance policy set by Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums... ," he said on Tuesday.
Kamal was speaking as the chief guest at the closing ceremony of a two-day "National Conference on Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism 2019" at Bashundhara International Convention Hall, reports BSS.
Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police organized the national conference in collaboration with Stop Violence Coalition Secretariat of UN, USAID and a non-government organization Rupantar.
CTTC Chief and Additional Commissioner of DMP MdMonirul Islam chaired the program.
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Mohammad JavedPatwari and DMP Commissioner MdShafiqul Islam addressed the program as special guests.
Bangladesh is a role model in the world for rooting out militancy, the home minister said, adding: "Our law enforcement agencies are working coordinately to curb extremism and militancy."
He said Madrasas are not involved in producing Death Eaters because militancy has no place in Islam. "Peace loving people in this country never liked militancy. It is not accepted that militancy and terrorism will exist in this peaceful country," he added.
Mentioning that Bangladesh’s people do not give shelter to militancy, he said incidents of murder took place in the country, but people resisted those incidents unitedly.
"We have to engage our children in welfare activities so that they cannot get involved in extremism and violent activities," the minister added.
He urged the people not to believe all internet contents.
"We have to use our wit and knowledge to be sure which internet contents are believable and which are not," he added.
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1) Key findings of Horowitz report:
--Yup, IG said FBI hit threshold for opening an investigation. But also goes out of its way to note what a "low threshold" this is. Durham's statement made clear he will provide more info for Americans to make a judgment on reasonableness.
2) The report is triumph for former House Intel Chair Devin Nunes, who first blew the whistle on FISA abuse. The report confirms all the elements of the February 2018 Nunes memo, which said dossier was as an "essential" part of applications, and FBI withheld info from FISA court
3) Conversely, report is an excoriation of Adam Schiff and his "memo" of Feb 2018. That doc stated that "FBI and DOJ officials did NOT abuse the [FISA] process" or "omit material information." Also claimed FBI didn't much rely on dossier.
4) In fact, IG report says dossier played "central and essential role" in getting FISA warrants. Schiff had access to same documents as Nunes, yet chose to misinform the public. This is the guy who just ran impeachment proceedings.
5) Report is a devastating indictment of Steele, Fusion GPS and the "dossier." Report finds that about the only thing FBI ever corroborated in that doc were publicly available times, places, title names. Ouch.
6) IG finds 17 separate problems with FISA court submissions, including FBI's overstatement of Steele's credentials. Also the failure to provide court with exculpatory evidence and issues with Steele's sources and additional info it got about Steele's credibility.
7) Every one of these "issues" is a story all on its own. Example: The FBI had tapes of Page and Papadopoulos making statements that were inconsistent with FBI's own collusion theories. They did not provide these to the FISA court.
8) Another example: FBI later got info from professional contacts with Steele who said he suffered from "lack of self awareness, poor judgement" and "pursued people" with "no intelligence value." FBI also did not tell the court about these credibility concerns.
9) And this: FBI failed to tell Court that Page was approved as an "operational contact" for another U.S. agency, and "candidly" reported his interactions with a Russian intel officer. FBI instead used that Russian interaction against Page, with no exculpatory detail.
10) Overall, IG was so concerned by these "extensive compliance failures" that is has now initiated additional "oversight" to assess how FBI in general complies with "policies that seek to protect the civil liberties of U.S. persons."
11) Report also expressed concerns about FBI's failure to present any of these issues to DOJ higher ups; its ongoing contacts with Steele after he was fired for talking to media; and its use of spies against the campaign without any DOJ input.
12) Remember Comey telling us it was no big deal who paid for dossier? Turns out it was a big deal in FBI/DOJ, where one lawyer (Stuart Evans) expressed "concerns" it had been funded by Clinton/DNC. Because of his "consistent inquiries" we go that convoluted footnote.
13) IG also slaps FBI for using what was supposed to be a baseline briefing for the Trump campaign of foreign intelligence threats as a surreptitious opportunity to investigate Flynn.
14) Finally, intriguing just how many people at the FBI don't remember anything about anything. Highly convenient.
15) Last point. When IG says he found no "documentary" evidence of bias, he means just that: He didn't find smoking gun email that says "let's take out Trump." And it isn't his job to guess at the motivations of FBI employees. Instead...
16) He straightforwardly lays out facts. Those facts produce a pattern of FBI playing the FISA Court -- overstating some info, omitting other info, cherrypicking details. Americans can look at totality and make their own judgment as to "why" FBI behaved in such a manner.
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Kim Strassel and Mollie Hemingway have more brains between them than the entire 1,000+ Shitshow Press Corps has
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9) And this: FBI failed to tell Court that Page was approved as an "operational contact" for another U.S. agency, and "candidly" reported his interactions with a Russian intel officer. FBI instead used that Russian interaction against Page, with no exculpatory detail.
"Approved as an operational contact".... means the Bureau would have had to have received approval to use Page from the owning agency.
"FBI instead used that Russian interaction against Page"....Which would indicate the bureau was provided copies of the contact report(s) from the owning agency (was aware of Page's placement and access).
Why would the owning agency knowingly risk exposure of an asset with Russian contacts? Sadly, I believe we all know the answer to that question.
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^ A massive redirect & mindf--k exercise away from real collusion (by Steele/Ohr/Simpson with Steele's GRU buddies, Mifsud, Halper et al.) toward bogus/non-collusion by the Trump retinue.
The whole stupid operation aided and abetted at every turn by Simpson's former colleagues in the press and by the Democrats in Congress. And, truth be told, by the stupidity and sliminess of Manafort and Stone as well as the gullibility of Trump Jr. and Young Papadopolus-- though what these bastards did to Gen. Flynn and to Carter Page was atrocious.
This whole redirect is so f---ing obvious it's pathetic.
We need prison terms for the lot of them. And at least one arrest for treason.
“It is difficult for Iran to be part of a security council in the region,” says Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud during a joint press conference with the GCC Secretary-General in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.https://t.co/WjALtVUc77pic.twitter.com/S3HAZAjRiF
[The National Interest] Key Point: The old rifles were sold by the Eastern bloc to the Middle East decades ago.
In 2012, rebels of the Free Syrian Army posted a video in which they uncovered an arms cache containing five thousand assault rifles. Though not an uncommon episode in a civil war then in its early stages, what was truly bizarre was that the rebels had uncovered a cache of Sturmgewehr 44s‐an assault rifle designed by Nazi Germany seventy years earlier.
How did a weapon only produced in the final years of World War II begin appearing in a Middle Eastern civil war seventy years later?
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Ended up the the armories of Warsaw Pact nations, who never threw weapons away. Got sent to the Middle East to help in liberation movements. Come with cases of ammunition headstamped 1944 and 45.
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Well, Sturmgewehr 44 IS the basis for Kalashnikov.
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Now they've shot all the ammo, so the rifles are being discarded. Privi Partisan still makes 8mm kurz in limited quantities, but not enough for a war.
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Available in Pakistan. It's called 44 bore there. The Baloch liberation rebels still have some MP44s, and modded AKs to fire it. And neck-turned .323 inch casings are also reused.
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There were PzrKpfW Mk. 4's used by the Syrians in the Golan Heights in the 1967 6-Day War. They were dug-in and basically used as pillboxes ... kind of a sad end for a tank but better than being used as a bazooka target, I guess.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Sudan’s former President Omar al-Bashir ...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Hee was overthrown by popular consent in 2019. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it... appeared on Tuesday before a prosecutors’ committee over the 1989 coup that brought him to power, his lawyer said.
Al-Bashir was "brought to be investigated in the case of the alleged 1989 coup," said his lawyer, Mohammed al-Hassan, who did not attend the hearing.
The lawyer also told news hounds that in his view the hearing was "not a judicial matter, it’s a political matter."
In 1989, al-Bashir, a brigadier at the time, seized power in an Islamist-backed coup that toppled the elected government of prime minister Sadiq al-Mahdi.
The former president was himself ousted by the army in April of this year after months of nationwide protests against his iron-fisted rule of three decades.
On November 12, Sudanese authorities filed charges against al-Bashir and some of his aides for "plotting" the 1989 coup. The prosecution established a special committee for the case.
If found guilty, he could face the death penalty or life imprisonment under Sudanese law.
Sudan is now ruled by a joint civilian and military sovereign council, which is tasked with overseeing a transition to civilian rule as demanded by the protest movement.
Al-Bashir is being held in Kober prison in a separate case, for which he has been on trial since August, on charges of illegally acquiring and using foreign funds.
A verdict is due in that case on Saturday.
On Tuesday, al-Bashir was taken from Kober prison to the prosecutor’s office in a convoy under strong armed protection.
After the hearing, which lasted about an hour, a crowd gathered in front of the prosecutor’s office, chanting "Kober prison - the best place for you!" and "you killed people!"
Wearing the traditional white Sudanese jalabiya and turban, al-Bashir raised his hands to the crowd, before he set off back toward Kober in the convoy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[RedState] TIME decided to go with the underage environmental activist Greta Thunberg. According to the TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal, the choice was easy to make since we’re all going to die soon and Thunberg was the one who rallied people around the globe to take the concern for environmental disaster to a new level.
[Fox News] 
Investigators believe that the gunmen in a Tuesday shootout at a kosher supermarket in New Jersey deliberately attacked the store, though there was no immediate word on their suspected motive.
[FreeBeacon] Virginia Democratic leaders abandoned their gun confiscation proposal Monday following a grassroots outpouring of opposition to gun control across the state.
[PJMedia] On Saturday night, UFC star Bryce Mitchell put a finishing move on his opponent that has only been used twice in a UFC "pro-motional" fight. Mitchell was named the victor, and then name-checked Washington, D.C.'s most famous MMA fan, President Donald Trump: "Donald Trump. I'm up here in D.C. If you need help whooping some politician, holler at me bro; I'll do it for free!"
[American Thinker] The first signs of trouble ahead for newly elected so-called moderate representatives in swing districts are being felt here in Virginia's 7th district.
[IsraelTimes] Satellite images show apparent underground storage passage on an alleged IRGC base in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border.
[AmericanThinker] Things are seldom what they seem to be, but we live in an age that is unusual for the dominance that fiction and fantasy have in the public debate about so many key issues. The House of Representatives is about to impeach a successful and popular President on hearsay, innuendo, and outright falsehood; you must believe that men can become women and women men or face vilification and ostracism; and of course if you dare whisper even the smallest hint that Islam is not a religion of peace, even as the jihad body count steadily mounts, your public career will be over and your name ruined. But there is no area of national and international discussion so rife with rigidly enforced propaganda falsehoods than the conflict between Israel and the so-called "Palestinians." In The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, the historian and scholar of Islam Robert Spencer clears away the lies.
[American Thinker] Up until now, President Obama has said he knew nothing about the FBI bid to destroy his political rival, Donald J. Trump, as evidenced in the newly released and mighty critical inspector general report.
[Babylon Bee] U.S.‐Scholars are claiming that King Solomon kept his concubines in shape by presenting each one of them with her own Peloton exercise bike. 
[Hot Air] Count William Barr among those unconvinced that Michael Horowitz’ report has vindicated anything about Operation Crossfire Hurricane. The Attorney General sat down with NBC News’ Pete Williams and declared that he disagreed that the FBI had a "sufficient predicate" for opening an intelligence operation against a major-party presidential candidate in the first place. Barr cited "gross abuses" and "inexplicable behavior" that leads him to conclude that the totality of Horowitz’ findings still "leaves open the possibility that there was bad faith."
[The Federalist] With the release of Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s FISA report, it is clear that Christopher Steele, the man who kickstarted the Mueller investigation with his infamous "dossier," exaggerated hearsay claims and reported them as fact. Here to corroborate this was Steele’s very own "Primary Sub-source."
[Washington Examiner] Six months before a Saudi gunman opened fire at the Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida last week, the FBI warned about the loophole he used to obtain a gun.
[Washington Examiner] Former FBI attorney Lisa Page is suing the Department of Justice and the FBI for violating her privacy by releasing her personal information to the public.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
[Dhaka Tribune] Narayanganj police on Tuesday arrested six people accused in a case filed for gangraping a teenager on Monday in Fatullah upazila.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
...another whack at Fascism that did't work, except for the musical...
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
[DAWN] The United States on Tuesday blacklisted former Malir senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rao Anwar for engaging in "serious 
......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the 
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
[Dhaka Tribune] Terming Bangladesh as a role model of curbing militancy and terrorism, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has aid Islam does not allow terrorism and militancy.
3) Conversely, report is an excoriation of Adam Schiff and his "memo" of Feb 2018. That doc stated that "FBI and DOJ officials did NOT abuse the [FISA] process" or "omit material information." Also claimed FBI didn't much rely on dossier.
9) And this: FBI failed to tell Court that Page was approved as an "operational contact" for another U.S. agency, and "candidly" reported his interactions with a Russian intel officer. FBI instead used that Russian interaction against Page, with no exculpatory detail.
12) Remember Comey telling us it was no big deal who paid for dossier? Turns out it was a big deal in FBI/DOJ, where one lawyer (Stuart Evans) expressed "concerns" it had been funded by Clinton/DNC. Because of his "consistent inquiries" we go that convoluted footnote.
[The National Interest] Key Point: The old rifles were sold by the Eastern bloc to the Middle East decades ago.
...Former President-for-Life of Sudan He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself head cheese. He fell out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to 
